The Living Age, Volumen198E. Littell & Company, 1893 |
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... able to dodge several of his blows . While he was swinging it in the air for what I felt must be for me the last time , I saw his hand seized and a revolver presented at his face by one of his own people , who , having seen the attack ...
... able to dodge several of his blows . While he was swinging it in the air for what I felt must be for me the last time , I saw his hand seized and a revolver presented at his face by one of his own people , who , having seen the attack ...
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... able Bresse to Roderiguez , Mauritius , Java , to add to my collections . I obtained , and the Cape of Good Hope " ( recently however , only a few bones of the tua- republished by the Hakluyt Society ) , tara , and of some of the same ...
... able Bresse to Roderiguez , Mauritius , Java , to add to my collections . I obtained , and the Cape of Good Hope " ( recently however , only a few bones of the tua- republished by the Hakluyt Society ) , tara , and of some of the same ...
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... able rascal " though he be , he is going to have a livery which will cost four pounds , and that he has offered to pay for the lace on his hat out of his own wages . Yet his behavior is still so bad that his master is afraid to give him ...
... able rascal " though he be , he is going to have a livery which will cost four pounds , and that he has offered to pay for the lace on his hat out of his own wages . Yet his behavior is still so bad that his master is afraid to give him ...
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... able . . . . Besides , this was a person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood who excelled in every good quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature . " The date of this letter is July , 1726 ; but it was not until ...
... able . . . . Besides , this was a person of my own rearing and instructing from childhood who excelled in every good quality that can possibly accomplish a human creature . " The date of this letter is July , 1726 ; but it was not until ...
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... able for its own sake in Australia , that it seems to deprive men - those who are misleadingly called " the working men " of all enterprise and ambition . It has generally been assumed by econ- omists that every employee hopes some day ...
... able for its own sake in Australia , that it seems to deprive men - those who are misleadingly called " the working men " of all enterprise and ambition . It has generally been assumed by econ- omists that every employee hopes some day ...
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Página 486 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts ; But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 183 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Página 34 - THERE lies a vale in Ida, lovelier Than all the valleys of Ionian hills. The swimming vapor slopes athwart the glen, Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine, And loiters, slowly drawn.
Página 429 - FAIR daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Página 376 - Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.
Página 33 - All these he saw; but what he fain had seen He could not see, the kindly human face, Nor ever hear a kindly voice, but heard The myriad shriek of wheeling ocean-fowl, The league-long roller thundering on the reef, The moving whisper of huge trees that branch'd And blossom'd in the zenith, or the sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave...
Página 34 - A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean; and beyond, Far, far beyond, the solid vapours stretched, In headlands, tongues, and promontory shapes...
Página 42 - Fall, as the crest of some slow-arching wave Heard in dead night along that tableshore Drops flat, and after the great waters break Whitening for half a league, and thin themselves Far over sands marbled with moon and cloud, From less and less to nothing...
Página 365 - O world, as God has made it! All is beauty: And knowing this, is love, and love is duty.
Página 582 - And who is the worse for that?" BOSWELL. "It hurts people of weaker nerves." JOHNSON. "I know no such weak-nerved people." Mr. Burke, to whom I related this conference, said, "It is well, if when a man comes to die, he has nothing heavier upon his conscience than having been a little rough in conversation.